Nightingale and

the Rose

Analysis
Oscar Wilde

Time when this story took part: Summer and winter.

Subject: The nightingale helps the studend find his red rose.
Moral of the story: Not everything is about the money.

Characters:
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nightingale
student
girl (professor's daughter)
boy who gave a diamond ring to the girl

Analysis of the characters:

1. The nightingale
The nightingale is very kind, he believes in true love, helps other people, has
a wonderful singing voice.
2. The stutend
The student is in love, he is very sad, because he doesn't have the red rose to
ask the girl of his dreams to dance with him, he is very smart, but he doesn't
understand that the nightingale wants to help him. He is also very stubborn.
3. The girl (professor's daughter)
She prefers the money over the true love, a very bad person in my opinion.

Short content of the story: Professor's daughter told the student that she'll
dance with him only if he brings her a red rose. Student is being sad, because he
doesn't have a red rose, nor he can find one, and tomorrow is the ball where the
student plans to bring a red rose and dance with the girl for the whole night.
Nightingale sees the student's love towards the girl, he decides that he's going to
bring him the red rose. He finds a rose bush, but that rose bush grows only white
and yellow roses, and he needs a red one. On the rose buse where red roses grow,
plant's vessels froze because of the winter, but there's one way to unfreeze them
and to grow a rose overnight. The nightingale must pierce his heart on the rose's
thorn and sing the whole night, to grow a rose red like rubies. He does so, and dies.
The next morning, when student opened the window, he saw a red rose, he ran to
get it and then ran to give it to the girl. But she told him that the rose won't match
her dress, and that the diamonds which she got from another boy are far more
expensive compared to the rose. Student gets offended and tells the girl that she's
being ungrateful and throws are rose on the ground where it got ran over by a car.

About the writer:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an
Irish writer, poet and playwright. He wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the plays
Salom, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady
Windermere's Fan.
Wilde was bisexual. He was married, and had two children. His downfall came as a
result of his affair with a younger man, Lord Alfred Douglas.